Control Data Corporation 3300 Reference Manual page 262

Figurative Constants
Certain constants, called figurative constants, have been assigned fixed data names. Figurative
. constants must not be bounded by quotation marks, or they become non-numeric literals. The
singular and plural forms of figurative consiants are equivalent and may be used interchangeably.
Figurative Constant
ZERO
ZEROS
ZEROES
SPACE
SPACES
HIGH-VALUE
HIGH-VALUES
LOW-VALUE
LOW-VALUES
QUOTE
QUOTES
ALL literal
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Meaning
Represents the value 0, or one or more of the character 0, depending
on context.
Represents one or more blanks or spaces.
Represents one or more of the character with the highest value in
the COBOL collating sequence.
Represents one or more of the character with the lowest value in
the COBOL collating sequence.
Represents one or more of the character
II
or the character sub-
stituted for it on computers that do not use a quotation mark. The
word QUOTE cannot be used in place of a quotation mark in a source
program
to
bound a non -numeric literal.
Represents one or more of the string of characters comprising the
literal. The literal must be either a non-numeric literal or a figura-
tive constant other than ALL literal. When a figurative constant is
used, the word ALL is redundant and may be used for readability
only.
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